| host range characteristics of the primate coccidian, isospora arctopitheci rodhain 1933 (protozoa: eimeriidae). | studies were conducted on 35 primates, 12 carnivores, and 2 marsupials to determine their susceptibility to the primate coccidian, isospora arctopitheci. patent oocyst infections resulted in 12 of the 14 species of animals investigated. these included 6 genera of new world primates native to panama: saguinus geoffroyi, aotus trivirgatus, ateles fusciceps, cebus capucinus, alouatta villosa, and saimiri sciureus. in addition 4 families of carnivores (2 domestic and 2 sylvatic) and 1 species of mar ... | 1977 | 403270 |
| baylisascaris larva migrans. | baylisascaris procyonis is a roundworm of the raccoon found primarily in north america but also known to occur in other parts of the world including south america, europe, and japan. migration of the larvae of this parasite is recognized as a cause of clinical neural larva migrans (nlm) in humans, primarily children. it is manifested as meningoencephalitis associated with marked eosinophilia of the cerebrospinal fluid and peripheral blood. diagnosis is made by recovering and identifying larvae i ... | 2013 | 23829916 |
| raccoon roundworms in pet kinkajous--three states, 1999 and 2010. | baylisascaris procyonis (bp) is the common roundworm of raccoons (procyon lotor). adult bp live in the small intestine of this host, where they produce eggs that are passed in the feces. bp eggs ingested by nondefinitive host species hatch in the intestine, producing larvae that can migrate widely, causing visceral, ocular, or neural larva migrans. cases of neural larva migrans in humans caused by bp likely acquired from raccoons have resulted in severe encephalitis with permanent deficits and i ... | 2011 | 21412211 |
| ticks (acari: ixodida) on wild carnivores in brazil. | the present study reports field data of ticks infesting wild carnivores captured from july 1998 to september 2004 in brazil. additional data were obtained from one tick collection and from previous published data of ticks on carnivores in brazil. during field work, a total of 3437 ticks were collected from 89 cerdocyon thous (crab-eating fox), 58 chrysocyon brachyurus (maned wolf), 30 puma concolor (puma), 26 panthera onca (jaguar), 12 procyon cancrivorus (crab-eating raccoon), 4 speothos venati ... | 2005 | 16082932 |
| taxonomic revision of the olingos (bassaricyon), with description of a new species, the olinguito. | we present the first comprehensive taxonomic revision and review the biology of the olingos, the endemic neotropical procyonid genus bassaricyon, based on most specimens available in museums, and with data derived from anatomy, morphometrics, mitochondrial and nuclear dna, field observations, and geographic range modeling. species of bassaricyon are primarily forest-living, arboreal, nocturnal, frugivorous, and solitary, and have one young at a time. we demonstrate that four olingo species can b ... | 2013 | 24003317 |
| the natural place to begin: the ethnoprimatology of the waorani. | ethnoprimatology is an important and growing discipline, studying the diverse relationships between humans and primates. however there is a danger that too great a focus on primates as important to humans may obscure the importance of other animal groups to local people. the waorani of amazonian ecuador were described by sponsel [sponsel (1997) new world primates: ecology, evolution and behavior. new york: aldine de gruyter. p 143-165] as the "natural place" for ethnoprimatology, because of thei ... | 2013 | 23818096 |
| phylogeny of the procyonidae (mammalia: carnivora): molecules, morphology and the great american interchange. | the procyonidae (mammalia: carnivora) have played a central role in resolving the controversial systematics of the giant and red pandas, but phylogenetic relationships of species within the family itself have received much less attention. cladistic analyses of morphological characters conducted during the last two decades have resulted in topologies that group ecologically and morphologically similar taxa together. specifically, the highly arboreal and frugivorous kinkajou (potos flavus) and oli ... | 2007 | 17174109 |